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Scheduling Tasks
Configuring tasks to run repeatedly on a schedule
Scheduling a Task
Tasks are scheduled in the Django admin panel under Django Q and Scheduled Tasks. Add a new task, give the task a name, and tell it which function to run. Functions must be prefixed with
tasks. to tell Django Q to pull the functions from tasks.py. The final requirement is a schedule. Tasks can be run once or repeatedly (e.g. minutes, hourly, daily, weekly).To schedule the
release_servers() function inside tasks.py, you would enter the function name as: tasks.release_serversYou can provide arguments for the functions as needed. Ghostwriter's scheduled tasks do not require arguments, but some have optional arguments. For example, the
scan_servers() function accepts an active_only argument to restrict scanning only to servers that have been checked out for a project.Example Scheduled Task
Visit the Django Q database from the admin panel to access the Scheduled Tasks. You may wish to create a scheduled task to automatically release domains at the end of a project. There is a task for this already in
tasks.py, ghostwriter.shepherd.tasks.release_domains. This example executes
ghostwriter.shepherd.tasks.release_domains under the name Domain Release every day at 15:39 UTC with no additional args or kwargs.Could not load image
Scheduling release_domains() with Django Q
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